This is an analysis of Pompeii by Guy Wetmore Carryl.
The giant slept, and pigmies at his feet,
Like children moulding monuments of snow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca dedefafa egeghaha ijijjaja ggggekek
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0101110101 1101010001 1111110111 1111010101 11010100101 111001101 1111010101 0101110101 1001010101 0101010101 1110010101 01001010111 1101111101 10011101001 1001010101 1100010101 0101000101 01010110001 1011000101 1001010001 0101010111 010111111 1101010001 0101010101 0101010111 11011001 1111000101 11010100001 0110010101 0111011101 1001010101 1111110101 1101010001 0101110011 0101010111 1011010001 0101110101 0101111101 0101000011 1001010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, her
Anaphora
and, with
